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  1. Training for the Channel

    Date released
    27 Aug 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1577A
    NoS ID
    023189
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Training for the Channel. DESCRIPTION: Greta Anderson has been limbering up at Margate. Twice already she’s won the cross-Channel swim. Winner of many swimming races, she holds the...

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  2. Greta the Great

    Date released
    28 Aug 1958
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    58/69
    NoS ID
    108294
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Greta Anderson shatters the women’s Channel swim record - and nearly the men’s as well.

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  3. The Channel Swim

    Date released
    31 Aug 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1578
    NoS ID
    023196
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Channel Swim. DESCRIPTION: On the beach at Cap Nez, greasing-up for the big swim. There was Greta Anderson (twice a winner). Rough seas made the organisation of the start very...

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  4. The Sporting Scene: A Chopping Crossing

    Date released
    26 Aug 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1473
    NoS ID
    021886
    Story no
    9 / 10

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Channel Swim. DESCRIPTION: Into the sea near Cap Gris Nez, went the stalwart men and women off on the race organised by Billy Butlin. First to sight the famous White Cliffs on this side...

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  5. Girl Wins Channel Race

    Date released
    26 Aug 1957
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    57/69
    NoS ID
    107819
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Denmark’s 30 year old Greta Anderson wins the Channel cup race - and the only other of 32 swimmers to finish is Ken Wray of Southport.

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  6. Channel Swim

    Date released
    28 Aug 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1525A
    NoS ID
    022569
    Story no
    1 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Channel Swim. DESCRIPTION: Some thirty swimmers got ready for the start of the international Cross-Channel race, at Cap Gris Nez. A chilly prospect: to set off, in the dark, from...

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